Travelog post for: Lenny Lion

Today we help our host release a book for the BookCrossing Monopoly game.  Her (and Genoveva's mom's) team landed on "Square", so they have to release a book by a square.  Mommy said that she knows of a very beautiful square for the book. 

This is the book we will release. The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank.



We first visit the website to register the book.



Since weather has been somewhat rainy we put the book in a protective bag.



Off we go!  I thought we are going to a town square, but to my surprise we visit the Holocaust Memorial.

At the entrance there is a statue of a mother with two children.



Behind the statue is a quote from Anne Frank on the wall.



There is a pond and a statue of a big hand.



First we pass by a wall etched with pictures during the war.  It's horrible to look at the pictures and imagine the suffering.



The hand is reflected in the water where there are some lotuses.  It's very beautiful.



Oh here is the square our host talks about!!  There are slits in the wall so sunlight creates squares of light on the wall. 



We leave the book in the tunnel.



We hope someone will find and enjoy this book.



The light also shines through an opening to throw a yellow star on the ground.



We walk through the tunnel. At the end, there is an opening where the big hand statue is.  Up close, we can see that it is formed by many human figures.  They all have very sad and tortured faces.  We feel very emotional looking at them. 





At the end of the memorial is a sculpture similar to the one we saw at the entrance.  Only in this one, the mother and children have died.